Public Health

'Win for Science and Democracy' as Court Rules California Can List Glyphosate as Probable Carcinogen

New Study Finds More Than 95% of Global Population Exposed to Harmful Air Pollution

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Experts say the report "leads a growing worldwide consensus" that this "avoidable affliction" poses a serious and mounting threat to public health

New CDC Report Raises Alarm About Growing Threat of 'Nightmare Bacteria'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

U.S. public health officials found bacteria with "unusual" resistance to...

In Wake of 'Shameful' Vote by US Senate, New Cholera Warning for Yemen

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

"Let's not fool ourselves. Cholera is going to come back," says UNICEF's Middle...

In Latest Affront, Trump Health Department Scrubs Guidance for Lesbian and Bisexual Women From Website

Trump 'War on Drugs Scare-Fest' Proposes Executions and 'Very Bad' Ads

'Spectacular Failure of Leadership': Trump's Opioid Epidemic Proposal Reportedly Includes Plan to Execute Drug Dealers

At Museum 'Die-In,' Protesters Demand Opioid-Peddling Sackler Family Help to Combat Crisis It Fueled

Ending Rules to Curb 'Silent, Tasteless Killer,' Pruitt Makes It Easier for Polluters to Poison Nation's Water

New Study on Air Pollution Shows How Environmental Injustice Runs Rampant Across the Nation

Safety Breaches at US Meat Plants Spark Outcry in UK Over Possible Post-Brexit Trade Deal

Fueled by Broken Social Contract, Despair Driving US Life Expectancy Down

Siding With Monsanto, GOP Threatens to Cut Off WHO Funds Over Glyphosate Finding

Citing Infamous Big Tobacco Hearing, Sanders Wants Drug CEOs to Testify on Opioid Crisis

'Crisis No One Is Talking About': GOP Threatens Healthcare of 26 Million People

Global Alarm as Trump CDC Plans to 'Dramatically' Slash Epidemic Prevention

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Toxic Hot Seat: Your House Is (Still) Full of Poison

Called "horrifying, infuriating, compelling and hopeful," a new documentary Toxic Hot Seat explores the chemical flame retardants - equally likely to cause cancer and not to work - that are everywhere in our lives and houses, and the massive lobbying efforts of chemical manufacturers and Big Tobacco that put them there. With a new Give Toxics the Boot! campaign. "The average American baby is born with 10 fingers, 10 toes and the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the...